Plants – Herbaceous ornamental foliage plant
Plant Patent
2004-01-08
2004-11-30
Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)
Plants
Herbaceous ornamental foliage plant
Plant Patent
active
PP015390
ABSTRACT:
Botanical classification/cultivar designation:
Coleus×hybridus
cultivar Kakegawa CE8.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of
Coleus
plant, botanically known as
Coleus×hybridus
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Kakegawa CE8.
The new cultivar is the product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Cartago, Costa Rica. The objective of the breeding program is to create new
Coleus
cultivars with a low spreading plant habit. The new
Coleus
was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single seedling resulting from a self-pollination of a proprietary selection of
Coleus×hybridus
identified as code number 9CL-1, not patented. The new
Coleus
was discovered and selected from within the seedling progeny from the stated self-pollination in a controlled environment in Cartago, Costa Rica in 2000. This seedling was selected on the basis of its low and outwardly spreading plant habit and unique leaf coloration.
Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by terminal cuttings taken in Salinas, Calif. since 2000, has shown that the unique features of this new
Coleus
are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Plants of the cultivar Kagegawa CE8 have not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Kakegawa CE8’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Kakegawa CE8’ as a new and distinct
Coleus
cultivar:
1. Low and outwardly spreading plant habit.
2. Freely branching and vigorous growth habit.
3. Strong lateral branches.
4. Green and dark purple bi-colored leaves with dark purple-colored venation and green and purple-colored petioles.
Plants of the new
Coleus
are most similar to plants of the parent selection. Plants of the new
Coleus
differ primarily from plants of the parent selection in foliage coloration.
Plants of the new
Coleus
can also be compared to plants of the
Coleus
cultivar Salamander, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Cartago, Costa Rica, plants of the new
Coleus
differed from plants of the cultivar Salamander in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new
Coleus
are more compact than plants of the cultivar Salamander.
2. Plants of the new
Coleus
are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar Salamander.
3. Plants of the new
Coleus
are more outwardly spreading in plant habit than plants of the cultivar Salamander.
Plants of the new
Coleus
can also be compared to plants of the
Coleus
cultivars Kakegawa CE1, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/753,810; Kakegawa CE2, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/753,809; Kakegawa CE3, disclosed in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 10/753,808; and Kakegawa CE5, disclosed in a U.S. Plant patent application filed concurrently. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Salinas, Calif., plants of the new
Coleus
differed primarily from plants of the cultivars Kakegawa CE1 and Kakegawa CE2 in plant and leaf size and from plants of the cultivars Kakegawa CE3 and Kakegawa CE5 primarily in foliage coloration.
REFERENCES:
patent: PP3700 (1975-04-01), Datello
Campell Bruce R.
Haas W C
Sakata Seed Corp.
Whealy C. A.
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